LEESHAW 2nd winter Herring
Sunshine and blue skies everywhere this morning apart from Fly Flatts which was sat in a massive fog cloud along the west bank. On then to Leeshaw where conditions were good with broken cloud and blue skies and sunshine on a light W>3 at 4 degrees.
The day started off well with a text from Keighley Moor birder A.O. reporting a skein of Pinks over Haworth west to east at 0800 hrs. Whilst I was on the phone to DCB, at Oxenhope, passing on the message a skein came over Leeshaw very high >NE.
I cut Dave off and grabbed the camera but when I looked through the view finder there was just a blur. The camera and lens had got so wet yesterday afternoon at Ogden that the lens was steamed up and by the time I,d given it a wipe the geese had disappeared into a cloud in the distance.
From there it was all downhill with no more geese through and just Herring and LBB gulls keeping the interest going
A bright ,clear and sunny afternoon at Fly Flatts with a light NW>4 but once again Fly Flatts did,nt want to play and even though there were several reports of Pinks around the area none came over my air space.
The only interesting event was watching the local farmer and his 2 dogs round up a large flock of sheep moving them from one field to another. Those Border Collies are amazing working exactly to the farmers commands. Wish I could train my dogs to do as I tell them!
Leeshaw
1 Skein Pinkies
1 Sparrowhawk
1 Kestrel
19 Greylags
14 Canadas
1 Cormorant
1 Pied Wagtail
12 Herring gull..........>W
14 LBB gull..............>W
+ usual sp.
Fly Flatts
3 Canadas
2 Raven
1 Herring gull.......>SW
+ counting sheep!
BS